Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Consumer Goods industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Western Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Consumer Goods industry.
Consumer goods relate to items purchased by individuals and households rather than by manufacturers. It includes clothing and consumer electronics, hard products, like luxury and sporting goods, soft products, like textiles and paper products, and a variety of other goods like toys, musical instruments and tobacco.

Amount of money raised in Consumer Goods funding rounds is $8.4B, which is 7.2% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Western Europe over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Consumer Goods industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common countries among top VCs are The United Kingdom and France. They host 6 VCs each. There are also funds from Germany and Czech Republic. There is an equal amount of VCs in London and Paris which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Prague and Brussels. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from France, The United Kingdom, and India. For 8 funds in the sample, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in E-Commerce Platforms, Autonomous Vehicles and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1898 and the newest one in 2017. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2017 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 26, the maximum is 593. Average number of funding rounds is 195.6 while median is 109.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 167. Average amount of lead investments is 43.0 while median is 20.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 42. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -45.19 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.98 and the median is 3.91. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is more than 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 19.51 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.65 and median is 2.6. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.